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Kindle Lending Club to change name

February 13th, 2011 · No Comments · digital library

I just got an email from the folks behind Kindle Lending Club. They’re going to be changing their name fairly soon due to pressure from Amazon. The new name will be BookLending.com.

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Change in Habit: The eReading Device Effect

January 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion

I am now starting my fourth year as an owner of a dedicated ereading device. Three Christmases ago, my wife bought me a Sony 505, my first dedicated ereading device and my first introduction to the eInk screen. This past October, I bought myself a new Sony 950 and passed my 505 on to my wife. As [...]

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We DON’T Need To Change Copyright Laws To Save Newspapers

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

Interesting post on Business Insider yesterday. The author argues that the hot-news doctrine needs to be strengthened so aggregators can’t link to news articles: Using aggregators like Google and others, I can access essentially in real time the lead paragraphs of almost any story from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or indeed any [...]

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Padpressed will change how you read blogs

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · blog maintenance, software news

TechCrunch found an interesting new WordPress plugin today. Padpressed is designed to make a standard WordPress blog look like an app when read on an iPad. If not for the fact that it cost $50 and is still rather buggy, I would have downloaded it right away. It was on my “wait until they fix [...]

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